This quote from Thune on funding TSA while DHS is shutdown is jaw dropping, after what they did to government employees in the last year.

Hard to see this as anything but a system run by a monolith of wealthy elites, having hijacked a democracy to create a single governing entity with a "does what we want" side and a "doesn't stop us from doing what we want" side for voters to choose from.

I promise the C-suite at Burger King('s private equity vampires, probably) that nobody is choosing to avoid BK because they didn't hear the underpaid, overworked employees at the systematically understaffed restaurant serving ever lower-quality and higher-priced burgers say "please" and "thank you".

Absolutely stunned by this line: "For instance, a household making $160,000 per year can technically afford to spend $4,000/month for housing". Is the expectation that the household is not saving anything for retirement? This seems utterly insane.

Just over here watching my fellow progressives back a misogynist homophobe with a Nazi tattoo for Senate. I guess the Fetterman lesson of "guy who is great at showing his whole ass is probably going to spend his time in the Senate showing his whole ass instead of legislating" hasn't been learned yet

The plan to legitimize the regime's unhinged disregard for the Constitution by treating it like a boring, uncontroversial policy dispute between parties will certainly help the Dems going into the midterms.

AI will write our books as well as read them, produce our films as well as watch them. It will replace every creative and enriching task in our lives with simulacrum and free us to pursue our true passion of trying to survive in its ever encroaching shadow. This is a deliberate choice we are making

First movie in years I might bother going to the theater to watch

Shoutout to Hershey for ruining these little bastards with so much blandflation that I can confidently turn them down. My doctor thanks you for your service

I just heard that Matthew Cappucci gave the keynote at the National Storm Chasers Summit, and while I am unbothered by not having been invited or even made aware that such a thing existed, I am remiss at the lost opportunities in crypto that I'm sure would have been available had I attended.

Elon Musk seems to have a lot of followers. Maybe NWS should pretend he’s a meteorologist too?

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Has Governor Maura Healey ever spent 10 minutes around chatGPT and/or a human being? What is the intended use-case of cramming an LLM into state gov if not human interaction or decision making? If it does neither, how does it help state gov provide faster service?

gotta wonder how much of the perplexing amount of capitulation to the regime on-display in the halls of academia is based on the regime simply knowing which closets contain skeletons

on the one hand: technodystopia on the other hand: if there's one company I can trust to cellar-box a dystopian tech idea through a multi-billion dollar exercise in turning it into total trash that nobody will ever adopt, it's meta

I feel like we missed out on a timeline where things were going okay enough that the story about Olympic ski jumpers injecting stuff into their penises so they can jump farther would be the thing we couldn't stop talking about and we'd have some pretty stellar memes. But alas.

To the GOP: Is the Bad Bunny homosexual pornography in the room with us right now?

Watching BTC crash from the sidelines, this must be what it feels like to be a non-American or an expat and watching the US from a distance right now. "Looks bad, hope that mess doesn't splash on me".

I keep seeing this Base44 ad where some office rando says "I just made a budgeting app" and while the coders scoff the boss asks if it can write reports. A VIBE CODED BUSINESS BUDGETING APP, this is the sales pitch they CHOSE to present for their service.

I am racking my brain trying to figure out how senate Dems lose out on a "either you adopt our restrictions on DHS or DHS stops getting paychecks" negotiating position, but I'm prepared to be surprised/enraged.

"They could achieve victory over the Baltics in just a few days", the simulation confirms in reference to a country that is currently 4 years into its just-going-to-take-a-few-days occupation of a neighboring sovereign

Shout out to Punxsutawney Phil, the last meteorologist on social media who isn't demanding that I Like, Subscribe, Comment Below, Join The Patreon, Send A Super-Chat, Sign Up For The Substack, or Use The Promo Code For A Free $5 At Draft Kings. His forecasts suck, but he's a real one.

I encourage anyone presenting anything for AMS annual to record their presentation and just upload it to YouTube. A ton of people were not able to make it to see your work, and AMS charges a rapacious $570 fee for virtual attendance (!!).

everybody running around like jackasses and then Bowie runs in and fkn bodies him

A reminder for anyone who is planning to watch Jim Cantore's live coverage of the storm today: Jim Cantore is trash

he has stinkmata

Coding with Claude is like being the supervisor: someone else is writing the code based on my incessant complaints, I have no idea if they are doing it correctly, and if it fails I will be the one to catch heat for it. I don't like being a supervisor.

US weather for any AMS annual meeting in all of recorded history

what time will the trees explode at my house

So far I'm impressed with Claude as a coding assistant, it is very good at taking my garbage scripty-code and turning it into something with proper classes and exception handling. But there's something about its whimsical verbiage ("twisting...", "smooshing..." etc.) that is off-putting.

Tired: America, the Land of Opportunity Wired: America, the Land of a Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, a Corn Tortilla, and a Single Non-Premium Side of Your Choice

In retrospect naming your AI coding assistant "clod" was probably avoidable

and that answer to every question will be "the Senate Parliamentarian says we can't do that, sorry! Make another $2 donation and we'll get em next time I bet!"

my code during debugging when it's about to produce output that is 100% wrong for the thousandth time

I see all gambling as equally a waste of time getting got at a rigged table: Vegas, crypto, kalshi and its horrible children, all of it. If you engage with any of these, congrats, you’re the sucker at the table.

“stop calling it slop” is the “just bing it” of 2026

“I love ____ and I won’t apologize for saying so” 100% translates to “I love ____ for the really awful things ____ does, which is the only situation where apologizing about it would make any sense”

If you are still posting on a site that hosts a CSAM generator, you are a lost cause. I will bravely find a path forward in my life without your companionship. I'm a survivor.

I'm watching commentary on RaptureTok and I can't help but see crossovers to this brand of wishcasting. And like the Rapture, it doesn't matter how many times a date comes and goes without The Event happening, a new date will emerge. Similar to MOASS apes, too. An exploited bug in the human brain.

You're 12 at a family dinner party, it's 8:30pm, and you just walked into the room full of people in their 40s

Admitting X is your safe-space for an audience trained to clap like trained seals at any dumb idea a billionaire farts onto the platform is certainly a choice. “The Nazi site is nice to me!” We know.

You can tell something really super-racist went down when the GOP boomers start kicking up dust about Lincoln. “We were the good guys 150 years ago!”

A frenzy of renaming landmarks after yourself seems kind of panicky. It has "the pyramid must be finished *in time*" energy.

One of my first interactions on twitter was calling Jim Cantore an idiot

I think it's entirely fair to immediately retract any paper that cites one of these slop citations in any capacity. They obviously didn't read the sources they cited, so they aren't real papers either.

Worth mentioning that Charlie Sykes, the editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, is a long time racist who enjoyed playing a parody song on his WI radio show titled "It's Free - Swipe Yo EBT" decrying his neighbors having access to food. I wouldn't take The Bulwark seriously on this, or anything else.

It's hard to understand why this horse paste gobbling moron is a US senator (my US senator, no less!), when all he does is copy/paste old-man-brainrot from whatever facebook ring he's been captured by, and occasionally indulge in some light treason as a treat.

Going to geriatric-millennial a bit: It's also not fun. The consoles are too expensive and play intermediate upgrade games on an already too fast versioning schedule. Games are hugely expensive and don't make fun gameplay a priority. Microtransactions everywhere. Why bother?